CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—This rapidly developing Pampanga capital, its more than 300,000 permanent residents and around a million transients are further assured of adequate and good quality water as the City of San Fernando Water District (CSFWD) and PrimeWater Infrastructure Corp. (PrimeWater) sealed a contractual joint venture (JV) for 25 years. PrimeWater won the bid in a process and guidelines set by National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) and Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC). It passed thorough evaluation by the CSFWD’s Joint Venture Selection Committee. PrimeWater is a wholly-owned Filipino company with more than 30 years in professional water operations. It operates 250 deep wells in various parts of the country, supplying also water to large residential subdivisions. It runs three big bulk water projects in Iloilo, Albay and Zamboanga and has JVs with 13 water districts. CSFWD remains a government-owned and controlled corporation during the JV, with specific task to monitor the contract implementation, Its highest policy-making body shall be the board of directors. “Given the capacities and expertise of PrimeWater, we are confident that CSFWD’s 25-year plan worth P2.9 billion will be fully accomplished in support of the City of San Fernando as the business capital of Pampanga and regional capital of Central Luzon,” said Angelo David, chairperson of CSFWD, on Wednesday at the formal launch of the JV. “We are confident that this private-public partnership will benefit the people of San Fernando. We have further secured our people’s right to adequate and clean water,” David added. The main milestones in the JV are the increase in water supply to...

On March 14, 2016 the City of San Fernando Water District (CSFWD) inaugurated and blessed one of its two new pumping station located at East Gate Center, Brgy. San Jose, City of San Fernando, Pampanga. The occasion was led by the Chairman of the Board Angelo David, together with Dir. Antoniette Orejas and General Manager Jorge Gumba. East Gate Center Pumping Station is the 33rd pumping station of the CSFWD. It is considered as a “new generation pump,” or the “future pump,” with the technologies it is utilizing. Pumping Station No. 33 is using SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) a computer controlled system where the pump automatically adjusts the pressure and/or amount of water to be discharged by the pump depending on the demand. Another technology attached to it is a UV Rays Disinfection Equipment which filters and disinfects the water from all kinds of contaminants without the use of...